GeoHot now works at Facebook

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GeoHot will probably be forever known as the guy who hacked the PS3 and released the console’s private key, but those days are officially over as he has got a legitimate and high-profile job. GeoHot now works at Facebook.

We’ve already had one hacking surprise today as LulzSec announced over the weekend that they had disbanded. Now we are hearing George Hotz, the hacker Sony targeted in a recent lawsuit, has landed himself a job working for Mark Zuckerberg.

Hotz apparently tried to keep his new job low profile and managed to do so for a couple of months. He actually started working at the social network in May, and it wasn’t until the middle of June that he told friends through Facebook.

Sony and Hotz settled the PS3 jailbreak lawsuit back in April. Hotz agreed not to release anymore code, but also did not have to admit he did anything wrong. Since then he has kept quiet and seems to have realized being in the media and crosshairs of companies like Sony is not what he wants for his future.

There’s no denying that George Hotz is a talented individual on a computer, and Facebook clearly realized this. Lets hope they’ve got him working on Facebook security as who better to thwart hackers than a proven hacker.

Ever since the Sony lawsuit the focus has been on Hotz and Sony, but we have to remember he was also quite prolific when it came to hacking the iPhone and iPad.

His decision to go legitimate will come as a surprise to a lot of people, but it is the right thing to do. If he kept hacking he would only end up facing more lawsuits and possibly even jailtime and some big fines. This way he gets to earn a decent wage working at a forward-thinking company that could really test his skills. I also doubt there’s going to be a lack of hackers willing to continue circumventing hardware security, although Apple may have stopped an untethered jailbreak eve happening on future iPhones. Whoever manages to overcome that hurdle for iPhone 5 will surely share the status GeoHot managed to attain in the hacking community.